naked capitalism

skippy says:

I'm unsurprised and not in a tinfoil way either.

If an individual examines their surroundings and multiples the effect to expand it globally, it becomes quite chaotic. Where if one moves out ward, not unlike in our solar system it becomes much clearer.

Skippy… so why is that huge magnafing glass with the *tm* of Capital Group Companies over my head.

TonyForesta says:

Is this supposed to be news??? Is it not obvious that the predatorclass owns 95% of the worlds wealth and resources, and manipulates both markets and governments for it's own illgottengain???

Siggy says:

The fly in this ointment is indeed the problem of 'street name' holdings. In fact it's not even a fly, it's a damm big elephant!

Now what happens when you compare the published 'research' with the relative concentration of holdings.

In that you might be able to infer that there is motivation. Barring some collateral comparison, the study is crap! Those fellows must be waiting for the Large Hadron Collider to fire up again.

jbg says:

“Conspiracy theorists will have to wait until the article described in Inside Science is published to determine whether it delivers on its claims.”

articles published in peer-reviewed journals have been screened by referees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review#Procedure)

“But the work was done by physicists, which means they may not have understood the limits of the data they were working with.”

http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0878
the results are based on ownership data from a commercial database. this data is understood as yielding a network. network analysis is not something economists traditionally engage in…